Clever quote, but irrelevant to current events in 2009 USA. Socialism is not an all-or-nothing proposition, and merely taking health care out of the abusive hands of HMOs where decisions are determined based on the need to grow profits is hardly crossing a line into Stalinism. The America you love is already partially socialized, and I doubt you've ever worried much about it. We already have socialized medicine for the elderly (medicare) and for some poor people (medicaid), socialized retirement (social security), socialized education (public schools), not to mention socialized defense (the military), socialized infrastructure construction and maintenance (Depts of Transportation), etc, etc... Socialism is just the govt providing a service to the citizenry at-large, instead of requiring that we fend for ourselves. Merely expanding the availability of medicare/medicaid to make sure that everyone has access to basic health care would not turn the USA into the USSR, no matter how often or how loudly Rush Limbaugh tells you it is (as he shills for corporate interests).